083: World-Class, Affordable, and High Quality Healthcare in the Cayman Islands with Dr. Chandy Abraham

Dr. Chandy Abraham is the Medical Director of Health City Cayman Islands which recently opened its doors to local and international patients last April 2014. They are composed of medical professionals who provide high quality and world-class services and offers excellence in several surgical procedures. They are currently working on their accreditation by the Joint Commission International (JCI) and envisions to provide care in all specialties in their state-of-the-art hospital. Find out how Dr. Chandy Abraham and his team of professionals work on reducing costs to medical care and administer transparencies to pricing without losing the quality in their healthcare services.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

About the state-of-the-art hospital, Health City, in Cayman Island, which recently opened last April 2014

About a patient from Cayman Islands who had a cardiac failure and was recommended to have a heart transplant in the US but was not accepted by the hospital there because what was available in his insurance was not adequate to perform the procedure

How this same patient returned to Cayman Islands who had a successful artificial heart transplant 5 weeks ago under the hands of the professionals from Health City

How they live up with their brand equity i.e afforable and cost-efficient healthcare

How they make the effort of drastically reducing the cost of medical care

About their highly experienced medical professionals and doctors who become much more proficient because of the volume of patients they are attending to becomes higher

About their state-of-the-art facilities with self-generating oxygen for patients

About their process efficiency that could help cut the cost down

How they provide a cost-transparent package to patients availing of their services

How they are in the process of working to be JCI accredited

The full concierge service they provide their patients

The cost savings in comparison to the commercial rates in the Eastern side of the US

Their after care services and procedures

The importance of physician’s experience, logistics of how a patient is going to be looked at, and establishing a good relationship with referring physician when considering taking medical treatments abroad

The Resources

The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

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“Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, tested the effectiveness of a genetically engineered version of the virus used to vaccinate against smallpox.”

“They found use of the virus alongside isolated limb perfusion chemotherapy – given directly to blood vessels supplying the affected arm or leg as an alternative to amputation – was more effective in rats than either treatment on its own.”